A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons. Rudy Rucker American Scientist More Rudy Rucker Quotes 0